It wasn’t long before community members, in true Bowman fashion, helped out a Bismarck school bus recently traveling through Bowman County after it was involved in an accident.
By BRYCE MARTIN
Pioneer Editor | [email protected]
It wasn’t long before community members, in true Bowman fashion, helped out a Bismarck school bus recently traveling through Bowman County after it was involved in an accident.
The Bismarck Wrestling Booster Board extended its appreciation this week to Bowman residents Reid Carlson and Jonathan Jahner for their assistance after the Bismarck bus, and the 30 students it carried, experienced a problem with its tire near Buffalo, S.D. The bus was transporting wrestlers from an away game in South Dakota and ultimately became stranded, making it across the state line to end up in Bowman.
Members of the booster board wrote to Bowman County Schools Superintendent Dave Mahon, thanking Bowman for its assistance.
“(Jonathan Jahner) took control and assisted us more than he had to,” the board wrote.
Jahner, a teacher and coach at Bowman County Schools, located a bus and a driver that could assist the Bismarck team and contacted a local tire shop to work on the out-of-service bus.
Carlson also “went out of his way” to drive and meet the bus, load the students and their equipment, then transported them to the other Bismarck bus waiting 60 miles away in Belfield. Carlson is the parent of a Bowman wrestler and has a bus driver license.
“Reid (Carlson) was very courteous and missed a wedding reception to assist complete strangers,” the board exclaimed.
“It’s great knowing we have people like you to count on,” the letter concluded.
Mahon told The Pioneer on Wednesday that he was proud of these community members and their exemplary actions.
